Student Recognition Awards 2008 Student Recognition Awards • 6 to 9 p.m. • May 29, 2008 Celebrating Outstanding Student Leadership Produced by Communications and Information Services pg 133 Greenbank Road, Ottawa, ON K2H 6L3 pg 613-721-1820 Acknowledgements The members of the organizing committee would like to thank the following for their contributions to make the Student Recognition Awards a reality: Marie Bulgin — Executive Assistant to the Director, for her assistance and advice. Communications and Information Services staff — for the production of the Student Recognition Awards 2008 booklet and program. Nepean All-City Jazz Band — for the dinner music. Mike Lynn — Tenor Saxophone Jason Gencher — Trumpet Alex Bilodeau — Bass Anthony Jillions — Piano Austin Lamarche — Drums Art Nielson — Sport Vision for the production of the plaques. Miroslawa Wasilewski — Ottawa Technical Learning Centre, Horticulture, for the corsages and fl owers for the tables. Steward Hartley — Exhibit Marketing Specialist, for the donation of the portable displays on which the student photos have been arranged. Student Recognition What the Student Recognition Award Recipients Awards are all about . for 2007 The Ottawa-Carleton District School Board is pleased to host the third John Armstrong Kendra-Ann Kennedy Continuing Education Credit Program Hillcrest High School District-wide Student Recognition Awards. The purpose of this new initiative Ashley Attwell Tessa McNicol West Carleton Secondary School Nepean High School is to celebrate excellence in student leadership. Katie Badham Lonnie Nadler Sir Guy Carleton Secondary School Sir Robert Borden High School One of the long-term goals of the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board is Stephan Boraks Simrin Nagpal Glebe Collegiate Institute Merivale High School to strengthen the organization’s commitment to creating a learning and work Jennifer Buckell Dipesh Parmar environment that encourages positive outcomes for all students and staff. To Frederick Banting Secondary A.Y. Jackson Secondary School Alternate Program support that objective the District has recognized teachers, administrators, Arianne Ramirez Michelle Campbell Rideau High School and support staff with the Director’s Citation, Mentoring, Innovation, Ronald Sir Wilfrid Laurier Secondary School James Riggs K. Lynch Memorial, and Technology Excellence awards. Tonight we proudly Tara Chan South Carleton High School Bell High School and publicly honour our senior student leaders. Steve Robins Matthew Clayton John McCrae Secondary School Elizabeth Wyn Wood Secondary Alternate Program Edrise Sherif Julie Crowson Richard Pfaff Secondary Alternate Program The students being recognized were chosen by their principals and/or Earl of March Secondary School Kevin Shonfi eld coordinators who felt they demonstrated the will to succeed, the dedication Benjamin Durocher Ottawa Technical Learning Centre Canterbury High School to fi nish what they started, and the commitment to achieve their personal Lauren Smith Laura Fanjoy Colonel By Secondary School best. Gloucester High School Wendy Smith Adam Farhat Norman Johnston Secondary Woodroffe High School Alternate Program Thank you for joining us this evening to celebrate the achievement of our Benjamin Farrow Pavatharani Srikaran secondary students. Lisgar Collegiate Institute Adult High School Naureen Haque Jessica Steward Brookfi eld High School Ridgemont High School “I am still learning.” Jenna James Kendra Towns Osgoode Township High School Cairine Wilson Secondary School – Michelangelo 36 1 at the University of Ottawa; donating Student Recognition time and energy toward charitable causes including the Relay for Life and Award Recipients United Way; running dances, movie for 2006 nights, spirit assemblies, and rock Kailynn Anthony Farrah Issa concerts; participating in the Cappies; Osgoode Township High School Merivale High School and promoting environmental Michelle Boulet Dina Kahiel responsibility. What all of them have Sir Guy Carleton Secondary School South Carleton High School done is be active in their high school Jonathon Braun Robin Kearns life. In doing that, their lives, the lives West Carleton Secondary School Earl of March Secondary School of their family, friends, and children Dan Carnite Lindsay Lachance Glebe Collegiate Institute on the other side of the world all Ottawa Technical Learning Centre Ninnera Channer Anna Lim benefi ted. Sir Wilfrid Laurier Secondary School Laurentian High School Rachel Datson Konval Matin This is the third year we have Continuing Education Credit Program Ridgemont High School Message from recognized outstanding graduating Amy Derickx Amanda McDonald the Director students from every high school — it Gloucester High School Frederick Banting Secondary Alternate Program is a practice we hope to continue for Joy Ding Danielle Mignault Tonight we will honour 30 graduating years to come. Sir Robert Borden High School A.Y. Jackson Secondary School students. Their stories are varied Larisa Droll Samantha Oswald Lisgar Collegiate Institute and uniquely their own but you will Congratulations to each of you J.S. Woodsworth Secondary School Sara Emard Natasha Rupani quickly see their message is singular — for what you have been able to Norman Johnston Secondary Alternate Program John McCrae Secondary School through dedication and perseverance, accomplish already and for the Mutiat Enikanolaiye Paula Saliba one person can make a difference. recognition of your school for your Brookfi eld High School Hillcrest High School contributions and leadership. You Joel Fair Meghan Spring Among these 30 students are have been given the gift of leadership Cairine Wilson Secondary School Bell High School stories of hardships handled with and a talent that will help make this Amani Farhat Sarah Stephens grace, dignity, and determination; world a better place. Rideau High School Adult High School raising awareness for the Rwandan Armin Forouzan Jordan Tannahill Genocide; winning the Chancellor’s Woodroffe High School Canterbury High School Owen Gemmell Sarah Tranquilli-Doherty Scholarship at Queen’s University Dr. Lorne M. Rachlis Richard Pfaff Secondary Alternate Program Colonel By Secondary School and at Carleton University and the Director of Education Ashley Gunn Eleni Wener Undergraduate Research Scholarship and Secretary of the Board Elizabeth Wyn Wood Secondary Alternate Program Nepean High School 2 35 Student Recognition Award of impressive purposes. At the same Recipient time your leadership is a gift given to you from your fellow students, your teachers, and other staff in your Katreena Savard schools, your families, and friends Woodroffe High School in the community, where they have accepted your vision, your direction, Katreena Savard’s positive demeanour, her your help, and your will to achieve proven leadership style, and her ability to something good. Your legacy will be motivate her fellow classmates have benefi ted not just the things you’ve done this year but also the ways that others in Woodroffe High School tremendously and her future follow your example. legacy will be felt for years to come. If what you have accomplished this year is any indication, the world will Her list of accomplishments, during her four years at Woodroffe, are numerous Message from and diverse and include being the Athletic Association president, Student Council be a better place for your efforts. On the Chair behalf of the trustees of the Ottawa- president, Leadership member, and Woodroffe Ambassador. Year after year Carleton District School Board, I offer Katreena continues to lead the Tiger Ambush, providing a peer role model for the Leadership manifests itself in many my congratulations and thank you for students who will follow in her footsteps. ways. When I look at the range of following your principles and your achievements demonstrated by the dreams to such good effect. You’ve Her connection to the community is exemplary and includes fund-raising for 30 students being honoured here, made good things happen and many I’m heartened and humbled by have benefi ted, and will benefi t, from several causes including a fun day at the local seniors’ home, volunteering with your commitment to improving our the results. Korean exchange students, and working with the homeless in Ottawa. communities, our society, and our world. Katreena is a model student who is respected by her peers and appreciated by her teachers. She is part of what makes Woodroffe a special place to learn and work. Your leadership has been a gift Lynn Scott from you to all those engaged in Chair of the Board your school community, where you have provided inspiration, hope, motivation, organization, and hard work to accomplish a spectacular array 34 3 Student Recognition Student Recognition Award Award Recipients for Recipient 2008 Thi Dao Lauchlan Gale Alicia Puritt A.Y. Jackson Secondary School Lisgar Collegiate Institute West Carleton Secondary School Afnan Azizi Sarah Kehler Adult High School Merivale High School Alicia Puritt wanted her high school Amanda Harvey Madison Cumbaa Bell High School Nepean High School experience to be well rounded. She wanted Andrew Charles Kayla Russell to participate in social justice activities, Brookfi eld High School Norman Johnston Secondary Alternate to become better acquainted with other Program McLish Alexander cultures and their languages, and to support both local and global charitable Cairine Wilson Secondary School Grace Valentine Osgoode Township High School initiatives. Well, she fulfi